Paradise Lost,reaches out and pulls in references and allusions to other literary works, making it Milton's most influential piece of literary work. The writing echoes primary epic and the epic's elevated language of describing people and events in great detail and in super realistic terms.

Primary epic often uses nature as a simile, as with the line, "Thick with autumnal leaves that strew the brook."(303). This line portrays an image of thousands of dead, brown, wet, and muddy leaves, which add more depth to the portrait of the fallen angels described in the passages from lines 299-313. To assert this description further, Milton uses references to specific places to affirm and reinforce the grand stature of the characters to whom he is referring. For example, the demons are, "High over-arched embower; or scatt

The passage within the poem reflects the evil nature of Satan, prior tohis plan to corrupt the innocence of Adam and Eve. To supplement this evil, Milton uses strong language such as "vexed" and "fierce." He uses word combinations to describe the physical and the ethereal. For example, "Perfidious hatred" is used to describe the motivation behind the pursuit of the Hebrew children in the Exodus. By using strong language and similes to nature,

ered sedge / Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed / Hath vexed the Red Sea coast," (304-06).

Milton has established in his descriptions, an epic tradition.

Orion armed is associated with seasonal storms and The Red Sea in Hebrew is called The sea of sedge. These two images when combined, add a fierce and grimy portrait of these fiends. They seem to be hovering, and waiting for the right moment to generate chaos i

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